Equus (play) - Wikipedia
Equus is a 1973 play by Peter Shaffer, about a child psychiatrist who attempts to treat a young man who has a pathological religious fascination with horses. [1] Shaffer was inspired to write Equus when he heard of a crime involving a 17-year-old boy who blinded six horses in a small town in northern England.
Leonard Nimoy - Wikipedia
By 1977, when Nimoy played Martin Dysart in Equus on Broadway, he had played 13 important roles in 27 cities, including Tevye, Malvolio in Twelfth Night, and Randle McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. [35]
The Daily Scrapbook 10/26/12 Nimoy in ‘Equus’
The Daily Scrapbook 10/26/12 Nimoy in ‘Equus’. Here’s today’s flashback; From 1977, Leonard Nimoy got to Broadway as the 5th actor to portray Dr. Martin Dysart in Peter Shaffer’s Equus. The drama was about disturbed young man fanatically obsessed with horses.
Equus – Broadway Play – Original - IBDB
Equus (Original, Play, Drama, Broadway) opened in New York City Oct 24, 1974 and played through Oct 2, 1977.
Equus (Broadway, Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, 1974) | Playbill
SYNOPSIS: Psychiatrist Martin Dysart attempts to understand why young stableboy Alan Strang has blinded six horses. In his exploration of the troubled boy and his dysfunctional parents,...
‘Equus’ a New Success on Broadway - The New York Times
Oct 25, 1974 · “Equus” is a psychological inquiry into a crime, a journey into someone's mind. It is a kind of highbrow suspense story, a psychic and mythic thriller, but also an essay in...
Equus Summary | SuperSummary
Focusing on themes of religious obsession and ritual sacrifice, it constructs a unique theology in the young man’s mind involving horses and a fictional deity named Equus. It also explores the conflict between a person’s own values and satisfaction versus societal mores and institutions.
Equus -- New York Magazine Theater Review - Nymag
Oct 2, 2008 · E quus, a middlebrow sensation in 1974 thanks to big ideas and a little class, has returned to Broadway. And it’s a sensation once again, although the young crowds outside the Broadhurst...
Not just Spock: Leonard Nimoy’s arts trek covered many galaxies
Feb 28, 2015 · “Leonard Nimoy carried conviction,” is the first sentence ever written in the Los Angeles Times, 59 years ago, about the man-who-would-be-Spock.
Beyond Spock - A Leonard Nimoy Fan Page
Equus (1977) Thoughts on Equus by Jackie Stone. Sadly for me, I can not write a review of Leonard Nimoy’s performance as Dr Dysart in Equus on Broadway. I’ve never been to the US, and I never saw him in the play, and I mourn that fact.